Healthy Britons.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1939, Page 4

Healthy Britons.

“Although, perhaps, we don’t beat as many drums as the dictatorship countries do, the people of Great Britain are just as intent upon keeping fit,’ said Dr F. W. Aston, noted English physicist, upon his arrival at Auckland. "In sport and through physical education generally we have learned that it pays to keep fit, but we don’t talk a lot about it, as they do in Germany and Italy. One doesn’t hear much about it in England, but a great deal is being done, all the same.”

Deer Among Stock. Within a few miles of Wanganui fallow deer are running untamed among stock in paddocks next to the road. Mr Alfred Caines, who owns the properly 'and the deer, said that tourists from all parts of the world had been attracted by the sight of the deer, and had asked for an explanation. For more than 40 years Mr Caines has been an ardent hunter in the hinterland hills of Wanganui and on his farm at Makirikiri there have always been deer, sometimes tame and sometimes wild. Wild deer, he said, were safer as pets than tame deer. Some years ago a member of his family was badly gored by a tame deer. Wild deer, on the other hand, never allowed humans within several yards, and the danger of attack was less. “The first fallow deer were imported from England and liberated on the farm next door about 50 years ago," said Mr Caines. "They were brought up the Wanganui river on a ship named the Irishman at a cost of £5OO. It did not take long j for the deer to become established, but 1 it was not till 1900 that the Wanganui ; Acclimatisation Society permitted lie- | ences to be issued,” he said. At pre-1 sent opinion is divided as to the value of the deer in the hills, but Mr I Caines remains tolerant and an in- i terested spectator of their ways as j well as a hunter. I